GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Semiotics, Food Waste, Chemical Substance
21 Mar 2016
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Food is not only essential, but also provides satisfaction. Life is more than merely staying alive, some people live to eat, some people eat to live. S-methylthiopropionate, this is a chemical substance, french says that this means the feet of god, (for cheese) context is everything. Snails are the oldest herded animals, romans had snail farms. Cato book of farming, a source of recipes: suggests that you should store urine of anyone who habitually eat cabbage, warm it and use it to restore health. Apicius wrote the oldest surviving cookbook de re conquinaria), heavily plagerised. Romans learned a lot from the freeks regarding food. Catholic church has a to do with food: seven sins, a bunch of french chefs took pilgrimage to the pope to have gluttony removed from the seven sins. French word for gluttony has a different connotation. Joys of transformation: transform raw food into a dish.
